Reviewing the most “paper-consuming” scandals in the gaming industry in 2019 (P2)

Aside from blockbuster titles, explosive moments, and truly amazing news, 2019 was also marked by a lot of controversy, which seems to have set the game industry precedent year after year. other. Let’s continue with Emergenceingame.Com to review the most notable scandals in the gaming industry last year.

Fallout 76 and the paid model
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Since its launch in 2018, Fallout 76 has always seemed to be at the center of controversy and criticism. Game bugs, server crashes, customer information leaks, etc. There were countless problems Bethesda encountered during the game’s release. By E3 2019, when the situation seemed to have just improved, the company once again continued to stab gamers with a fatal knife with a paid model called Fallout 1st, where players can pay a monthly fee. $12.99 or $99.99 a year to access advanced game features. Many people believe that this action of Bethesda has turned Fallout 76 into a true pay-to-win product that only cares about players’ blood. From a game hailed as a masterpiece, the path of Fallout 76 turning into trash is only so short.

E3 2019 revealed the personal information of thousands of participants
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E3 has changed a lot in the past few years, with Sony’s decision to withdraw from the event that has shaken the gaming industry. In August, the Electronic Entertainment Expo website accidentally leaked a spreadsheet containing the personal information of more than 2,000 journalists, streamers and event attendees, including phone numbers and addresses. Not only that, but the website also leaked media contact lists from 2004 to 2006. Although the problem was quickly fixed, this information was still cached by the website and available to users. use search. The organizers later apologized for the incident, but nonetheless, it left many doubts for those intending to attend the event next year.

Pokemon Sword & Shield Removes National Pokedex Feature
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After the announcement, fans around the world were full of hope for a new game that “makes a story” in this long-running series. However, things did not go as expected when Game Freak announced that it would remove the National Pokedex feature, making it impossible for players to play all types of Pokemon. Dissatisfied, players began flocking to social media to criticize the game, and some even complained to the White House to ban the sale of the game. However, despite that, Pokemon Sword & Shield is still one of the biggest grossing games of 2019.

Riot Games was sued by employees
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Riot Games has long been plagued with allegations of gender and racial discrimination, where female employees are sexually harassed, without opportunities for promotion and salary increases. The situation was so bad that employees went on strike and even filed a lawsuit against the company earlier this year. In the end, Riot accepted responsibility and compensated $ 10 million for about 1,000 female employees working at the company. Although everything seems to have been settled, this lawsuit has left a lot of bad news for the creator of the LoL game.

A series of popular streamers left Twitch to switch to Mixer
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While Twitch is controversial because of its unfair bans, rival Mixer has taken the opportunity to attract some famous streamers to its platform. The one who fired the first shot was Ninja, who switched to an exclusive livestream for Mixer in August with a contract value that is known to be not small. Following Ninja, many other names such as Shroud, King Gothalion, also said goodbye to Twitch. In response, Twitch also recently signed multi-year exclusive contracts with several popular streamers. It will be interesting to see how far the competition between platforms will go in this upcoming 2020.​